Items with tag “favorite poems”

October 16, 2008, 1:43PM

Stanley Kunitz discovered his favorite poem, "God's Grandeur," by Gerard Manley Hopkins, by chance. While roaming through a library one day, he opened a random book to a random page, and there the poem was. "It was filled with such a lyric passion. It was so fierce and eloquent, wounded and yet radiant, that I knew it was speaking directly... Full story »